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Acts of Dog by Debra Adelaide
Category: Science & Natural History
The theme of dogs provides limitless inspiration. Here, a collection of talented writers offers stories and memoirs based on dogs
Letter to George Clooney by Debra Adelaide
Category: Fiction
Debra Adelaide's new collection of short stories intricately maps both the sublime and the mundane landscape of ordinary lives, with her trademark dark wit and luminous intelligence. Australian author.
Motherlove 2: More Stories of Birth, Babies and beyond by Debra Adelaide
Category: Biography
A collection of stories about having babies and being plunged into the role of motherhood. From the tricky process of conceiving a child to the frustrating role of teaching a young child to read, with a few more birth stories in between, here is writing that is passionate and moving.
Serpent Dust by Debra Adelaide
Category: Fiction
"What was it like that day when the First Fleet sailed into Port Jackson? What was it like for those on board, and those who watched from the shore? Within two years of the Fleet's arrival, those watchers had suffered the shocking ravages of smallpox, their numbers decimated. The disease spread to Abori ...Show more
Simple Act of Reading by Debra Adelaide
Category: Biography
For it is in the simple act of reading where the living and the dead, the real and the imagined, meet. It is in the simple act of reading where we exercise those two most sacred of human vocations: compassion and creativity. For as we know, without either of these primes there is no possibility for a hu ...Show more
The Hotel Albatross by Debra Adelaide
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of The Household Guide to Dying comes a funny and moving account of life in the country.The Captain and his wife accidentally find themselves managing the Hotel Albatross. The Captain floats between the hotel's various bars: chatting to and chatting up customers, breaking up ...Show more
The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide
Category: Fiction
When Delia Bennet author and domestic columnist is diagnosed with cancer, she knows it's time to get her house in order. Fresh, witty, deeply moving and a celebration of love, family and that place we call home, this unforgettable story will surprise and delight the reader to the very last page.
The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing by Debra Adelaide
Category: Languages and Reference
In a book whose charm and erudition recalls 84 Charing Cross Road or Margaret Atwood's Negotiating with the Dead, one of our most prolific and respected authors, Debra Adelaide, shares a joyous and plaintive glimpse into a reading and writing life.This mercurial work is much more than memoir, much more ...Show more
The Women's Pages by Debra Adelaide
Category: Fiction
'Emily Bronte had written this novel especially for her. For her benefit she had sat alone in her narrow bed in the parsonage, her lap desk on her knees, death all around her with that graveyard right next door, the cold wind from the moors behind rattling the windows...But who had Dove written her stor ...Show more
Zebra and other stories by Debra Adelaide
Category: Fiction
The PM stretched out a hand. The black and white head extended, and as the zebra walked down the ramp and into the morning, her first in her new land, and a particularly bright morning as well, the PM realised that Mr Beamish was a marvel, a genius. A stranger, half a world, a continent, away, and yet h ...Show more
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